Force Releases DECtalk Text-to-Speech Software Version 4.61 Featuring Support for Six Languages.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 21, 2001 Voice Synthesis Technology Now Available for American English, British English, Castilian Spanish, Latin American Spanish, German and European French Force Computers, a Solectron company (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :SLR (1) (Scalable Linear Recording) A line of magnetic tape drives from Tandberg Data that evolved from the QIC Data Cartridge format. See QIC. (2) (Single Lens Reflex) A camera that uses the same lens for viewing and shooting. ) and a leader in embedded computing, today announced the release of version 4.61 of its premier DECtalk(R) text-to-speech (TTS) technology. The latest version of the company's robust voicing technology brings its number of supported languages to six-American English, British English, Castilian Spanish, Latin American Spanish, German and an initial offering of European French. Numerous capabilities have been introduced with this release. Support for version 5.0 of Microsoft's Speech Application Programming Interface (programming, standard) Speech Application Programming Interface - (SAPI) Microsoft's standard API for speech synthesis and speech recognition in Windows 95. The idea is to let developers try out and use various low-level speech software from any number of verndors, while retaining (SAPI (Speech API) A programming interface from Microsoft for speech recognition and synthesis. It provides a way for developers to enable their applications to receive text from and send text to voice devices. 1. ) has been added to complement the already successful SAPI 3.0 and the traditional DECtalk API (DAPI). In addition, the robust voicing technology now supports Windows(R) CE on PocketPC platforms in all six languages. And DECtalk v4.61 has a 30 percent smaller memory footprint (for storage and use) than previous versions, making it the smallest, fully functional voicing engine offered in the world. This release of DECtalk TTS includes significant improvements in German and incorporates a robust code and language quality program for regression testing, features verification and competitive review, giving the voice enabled application/device industry a new and accurate means to measure speech quality. DECtalk text-to-speech technology transforms ordinary text into natural-sounding, highly intelligible speech. In addition, its new unified phoneme set (UPS), allows speaking in one language, switching to another language to speak one or more words and returning to the selected language without changing language modes. It provides the highest level of speech quality and accuracy available in the industry, producing clear, correct pronunciation of single characters, words, phrases and proper names. DECtalk technology offers personalized voices, and its extensive user controls ensure optimum performance in real-world applications. "Wherever eyes-free or hands-free operation of a computer is required, DECtalk is an ideal solution," said Carl Leeber, Force product manager. "And because it operates on all Windows and Linux platforms, it's able to meet the text-to-speech technology needs of end users in numerous applications." About Force Computers Force Computers (www.forcecomputers.com) was founded in 1981 and is a leading designer and worldwide supplier of standard and custom systems and board-level computer platforms and services for the embedded market. The processor-independent company helps its customers develop embedded applications based on Alpha, MIPS (Million Instructions Per Second) The execution speed of a computer. For example, .5 MIPS is 500,000 instructions per second; 100 MIPS is a hundred million instructions per second. , Pentium(R), PowerPC(TM), PowerQUICC(TM), SPARC (Scalable Performance ARChitecture) A family of RISC CPUs from Sun that runs mostly under Sun's Solaris, but also under Linux and BSD operating systems. After development began in the mid-1980s by David Patterson of the University of California at Berkeley and Bill (R), StrongARM and 68K(TM) technologies for embedded UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). (R), Linux(TM), Windows NT(R) and real-time applications. Force supports VME, CompactPCI(R), PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). , PCI/ISA and PMC bus architectures as well as custom form factors. An ISO (1) See ISO speed. (2) (International Organization for Standardization, Geneva, Switzerland, www.iso.ch) An organization that sets international standards, founded in 1946. The U.S. member body is ANSI. 9001 certified company, Force Computers practices Total Quality Management principles in all phases of the company's global operations. The company, along with its parent company, Solectron Corporation, is the 1997 winner of the prestigious Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award The Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award is given by the United States National Institute of Standards and Technology. Through the actions of the National Productivity Advisory Committee chaired by Jack Grayson, it was established by the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality for manufacturing. Force's corporate headquarters and Asia Pacific headquarters is located in San Jose, Calif. Force's European headquarters is located in Munich, Germany. Note to Editors: All brands are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. Specifications may change without notice. Monetary amounts are stated in U.S. dollars. |
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